Immigration Forum Open to the Public in Lenox

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LENOX, Mass. — Greylock Together will host an immigration forum on Saturday, Jan. 31 at the Trinity Episcopal Church in Lenox, Mass. from 2-4 pm. 
 
The forum is one of several that has been organized by the Immigrant Support Action Team of Greylock Together, a local Indivisible group based in the northern Berkshires. 
 
Three key individuals active in the Berkshire Latino community will lead the forum. They will tell their stories, take questions, and center discussion on what average citizens can do to assist immigrants.
 
Fernando Leon, a member of the leadership team of the Berkshire Interfaith Organizing (BIO)  will be on the panel. A key goal of BIO is to create a safe and inclusive community for immigrants and people of color in Berkshire County.
 
Panelist  Rev Margot Page is a deacon for the Cathedral of the Beloved in Pittsfield and the All Saints Episcopal Church in North Adams, as well as an activist and president of BIO.
 
Panelist Michael Hitchcock is a co-founder of the Pittsfield-based Roots & Dreams and Mustard Seeds Inc., a multifaceted organization which runs food assistance programs and cooperative economic businesses. 
 
The forum will be hosted by Rev Michael Tuck, Rector of Trinity Episcopal and Dean of the Berkshire Deanery. 
 
Greylock Together is an organization committed to justice and united in the fight for progressive policies. 
 
 
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The Classical Beat: Tanglewood Music Festival Concludes Its Classical Season

By Stephen DanknerSpecial to iBerkshires

This week, the Tanglewood Music Festival concludes its magnificently curated, presented and performed 2026 classical season, culminating with the traditional performance of Beethoven's enthralling Symphony No. 9 ('Choral'.) Read below for the details.

THREE TANGLEWOOD CLASSICAL HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK

• Thursday, Aug. 20, 8:00 p.m. in Ozawa Hall: The world-renowned Silk Road Ensemble presents "Sanctuary: The Power of Resonance and Ritual." Led by North Carolinian musician, actor and author Rhiannon Giddens, this program explores how we can experience music to better understand our world, find comfort, process loss and a changing environment, and rebuild community, based upon our mutual humanity.

• Saturday, Aug. 22, 8:00 p.m. in the Shed: Conductor Thomas Wilkins leads the Boston Symphony, with violinist Randall Goosby, a 2022 Avery Fisher Career Grantee, boy soprano Edward Njuguna and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus in an uplifting program of Leonard Bernstein's mellifluous "Chichester Psalms," Florence Price's Violin Concerto No. 2 and Dvorak's sumptuous Symphony No. 8.

• Sunday, Aug. 23, 2:30 p.m. in the Shed: Maestro Gustavo Gimeno, Music Director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra conducts Beethoven's magisterial Ninth Symphony, with vocal soloists soprano Mané Galoyan, mezzo-soprano Zoie Reams, tenor Ben Bliss and bass Solomon Howard.

For tickets for all Tanglewood/BSO concerts (lawn and Shed seating) and for special events call (617) 266-1200 or (413) 637-5180; online: tanglewood.org or customerservice@bso.org. In Lenox, visit the Tanglewood box office at the Main Gate located at 297 West Street.

 

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